Improvement in hoop-skirt supporters



PATENT OEEICEc ERASTUS BLAKESLEE, 0F PLYMOUTH, CONNECTICUT.

llMPROVEMENT IN HOOP-SKIRT SUPPORTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,077, dated August 14, 1866.

To all whom it mor/y concern:

Beit known that I, ERAsrUs BLAKESLEE, of Plymouth, in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Skirt-Supporter; and I do hereby declarethe following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, iii- Figure l, a front view;"`Fig.v2, its application; and in Figs. 3 and 4, equivalent constructions of the same.

My invention is designed to support a hoopskirt at the back of the wearer; and it consists in the combination of two hooks, each attached to one of the two sides of the corset, the two hooks united so as to secure the skirt-band thereto, so that the Weight of the skirt at the back is sustained entirely by the corset.

To enable others to construct and use my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A and B are two hooks, formed from wire or other suitable material, hinged to a hook, C, as seen in Fig. 2, or other convenient manner. The two hooks AB are inserted each through one of theeyelets in opposite sides of the corset, as seen in Fig. 2, the hook C extending down in the proper position to receive the band of the skirt, as denoted in red, Fig. 2,

and thus supports the back of the skirt entirely upon the corset.

I have illustrated the hooks A and B as being hinged to the hook C, and this construction I prefer, as the joints yield and inakethe supporter self-adjusting; yet the supporter may be formed entirely from a single piece of -elastic Wire, as seen in Fig. 3, it being bent to fdrm the hooks A, B, and C, as there shown. This construction is not so readily adjusted as that first described.

Generally the hook C will be preferable to any other device for securing the skirt to the supporter, as no change or addition is required to be made to the skirtband. A convenient arrangement for securing a skirt may, however, be made by fixing a, button, D, in placeA of the tongue of the hook, as seen in Fig. 4. I do not, therefore, conne myself to the mode of construction described; but.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the two hooks A and B,

united together by and combined With a hook or its equivalent, C, and arranged in relation to a corset and skirt substantially in the manner and for the purpose specited.

ERA STS BLAKESLEE. Witnesses:

JOHN H. SHUMWAY, WILSON H. CLARK. 

